I enjoy travelling and documenting to find out new & old things, to see world and people with one drop of positive attitude... from a huge sense of wonder... But before all, it was William Blake who beautifully said it:
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour. (...)
Fragments from "Auguries of Innocence".
Also, "It’s never too late (...) to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same; there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again." excerpt by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Phaseolus (bean, wild bean)] "is a genus in the family Fabaceae containing about 70 plant species, all native to the Americas, primarily Mexico.

At least four of the species have been domesticated since pre-Columbian times for their beans. Most prominent among these is the common bean, P. vulgaris, which today is cultivated worldwide in tropical, semitropical, and temperate climates."

"Bean (/ˈbiːn/) is a common name for large plant seeds used for human food or animal feed of several genera of the family Fabaceae (alternately Leguminosae).

The term bean originally referred to the seed of the broad or fava bean,[citation needed] but was later expanded to include members of the New World genus Phaseolus, such as the common bean and the runner bean, and the related genus Vigna. The term is now applied generally to many other related plants such as Old World soybeans, peas, chickpeas (garbanzos), vetches, and lupins.[citation needed]

Bean is sometimes used as a synonym of pulse,[citation needed] an edible legume, though the term pulses is normally reserved for leguminous crops harvested for their dry grain. The term bean usually excludes crops used mainly for oil extraction (such as soybeans and peanuts), as well as those used exclusively for sowing purposes (such as clover and alfalfa). Leguminous crops harvested green for food, such as snap peas, snow peas, and so on, are not considered beans, and are classified as vegetable crops. According to United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization the term bean should include only species of Phaseolus; however, a strict consensus definition has proven difficult because in the past, several species such as Vigna angularis (azuki bean), mungo (black gram), radiata (green gram), aconitifolia (moth bean)) were classified as Phaseolus and later reclassified. The use of the term bean to refer to species other than Phaseolus thus remains. In some countries, the term bean can mean a host of different species.

In English usage, the word bean is also sometimes used to refer to the seeds or pods of plants that are not in the family leguminosae, but which bear a superficial resemblance to true beans—for example coffee beans, castor beans and cocoa beans (which resemble bean seeds), and vanilla beans, which superficially resemble bean pods."

"are one of the longest-cultivated plants. Broad beans, also called fava beans, in their wild state the size of a small fingernail, were gathered in Afghanistan and the Himalayan foothills. In a form improved from naturally occurring types, they were grown in Thailand since the early seventh millennium BCE, predating ceramics. They were deposited with the dead in ancient Egypt. Not until the second millennium BCE did cultivated, large-seeded broad beans appear in the Aegean, Iberia and transalpine Europe. In the Iliad (late-8th century) is a passing mention of beans and chickpeas cast on the threshing floor.

Beans were an important source of protein throughout Old and New World history, and still are today."

(...) Most of the kinds commonly eaten fresh or dried, those of the genus Phaseolus, come originally from the Americas, being first seen by a European when Christopher Columbus, during his exploration of what may have been the Bahamas, found them growing in fields."

Phaseolus vulgaris,

"the common bean, string bean, field bean, flageolet bean,[French bean, garden bean, haricot bean, pop bean, or snap bean, is a herbaceous annual plant grown worldwide for its edible fruit, either the dry seed or the unripe fruit, both of which are referred to as beans. The leaf is also occasionally used as a vegetable, and the straw can be used for fodder. Along with other species of the bean genus (Phaseolus), it is classified botanically into the legume family (Fabaceae), most of whose members acquire nitrogen through an association with rhizobia, a species of nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

The common bean is a highly variable species with a long history of cultivation. All of the wild members of the species have a climbing habit, but the many cultivars are classified as bush beans or pole beans, depending on their style of growth. These include the kidney bean, the navy bean, the pinto bean, and the wax bean. The other major types of commercially grown bean are the runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus) and the broad bean (Vicia faba)."

"Beans are a heliotropic plant, meaning that the leaves tilt throughout the day to face the sun. At night, they go into a folded "sleep" position."

Baked beans "is a dish containing beans, sometimes baked but, despite the name, usually stewed, in a sauce. Most commercial canned baked beans are made from haricot beans, also known as navy beans – a variety of Phaseolus vulgaris in a sauce. (...)

Canned baked beans are used as a convenience food. They may be eaten hot or cold straight from the can as they are fully cooked.

Baked beans are also sometimes served with chips, waffles, or the like."

" Fasole cu cârnați ("beans with sausages", Romanian pronunciation: [faˈsole ku kɨrˈnat͡sʲ]) is a very popular Romaniandish, consisting of baked beans and sausages. A variation replaces the sausages with afumătură (smoked meat).

Beans with smoked meat

Also a traditional Army dish, fasole cu cârnați is prepared by Army cooks and served freely to the crowds during the National Day celebrations (on 1 December) in Bucharest and Alba Iulia."

My presentation for Fasole cu cârnați picanți

If I have a recipe?

Oh Gosh... my mom's favourite...

Wash the beans... and let it over night to become soft in a water pot...

Then listen to your "fler", I meant to say....oops LOl ....

Just follow your amazing instinct and try to cook the beans into a perfect stew according to your taste...

... and, also, please add (among the real ingredients) some: humour, joy, fun and a good hand of members of your family or real friends...

Some more? well.... maybe....a glass of cheer?... cheers??...cheerfulness!!! ... yap LOL funny face... no cheerleaders.... what joke!!! I played with words....

I enjoy travelling and documenting to find out new & old things, to see world and people with one drop of positive attitude... from a huge sense of wonder... But before all, it was William Blake who beautifully said it:
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour. (...)
Fragments from "Auguries of Innocence".
Also, "It’s never too late (...) to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same; there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again." excerpt by F. Scott Fitzgerald

...Autumnal... September, 15.... And fall... again! In mid september when schools have been reopened for a new year of study...

I have to say that I had gladly walk in one of those most charming places to wander in, watching, seeing and looking patiently at a lots and various of already very known aspects, with a warmly and nostalgic thought in mind at those years that passed over us, my city and his surroundings...

Platan gigantic/ Sycamore tree

Every town is beautiful, every single corner of neighbourhood is so special, that it makes me to remind myself of the words written in an old essay: by Cella Delavrancea:

"Bucharest is an earth friendly for the trees.

Cismigiul possess even today, among many trees and shrubs, some beautiful sycamore trees, but one, the one it was declared "monument of nature", it can turn through his branches of a huge circumference and it can offer even today, to about 50 people, a beneficial shadow in days of heat. "

(...) My city, Bucurestii of today, receives a new vigour, and is the heart that beats into the rhythm of confidence in future."

I really hope that you'll enjoy the "sights" captured in images from Cismigiu Park, from the alleys, the lake and some already very known places... in "Grădina Cişmigiu" one of the most charming parks of Bucur's City, with a few days just before that the alleys of surroundings to be fully populated by joyful and happy people with the occasion of the Fair at the celebration of the 555th birthday!

Dâmbovița River (below)

and some sights from Izvor and Gheorghe Lazăr College at Schitu Măgureanu Ave

near by the Grădina Cişmigiu.

Let's start with:

the indicators, the green written panels - in witch can be found detailed names of main places - posted on the side of the walk paths just to give us a quick guide with helpful info for our tour around the lake.

With a surface of 29.500 m², a length of 1.3 km, a width of 50 meters and a depth of 1–2 meters, the lake is situated in the center of city, right in the middle of Cișmigiu Gardens. From historical sources it is said that it was was formed from an old bifurcation of the Dâmbovița River and was known in the time of Matei Basarab as "Balta lui Dura neguțătorul.Excerpt from Wikipedia:Cișmigiu Gardens :"The park was built in 1847, at a time when Bucharest was the capital of Wallachia, on a site formerly known as Lacul lui Dura neguțătorul (the "Lake of Dura the merchant"), or simply as Dura. The pool it replaced was a popular site for fishing from as early as the 17th century, and was inhabited by mallardcolonies. A part of the present-day gardens was occupied by a vineyard, which was planted around a water source: the latter had been tapped during the bubonic plague epidemic of 1795, when the two sons of Prince Alexander Mourousis took refuge in the largely uninhabited zone."

"The black swan (Cygnus atratus)* is a large waterbird, a species of swan, which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. The species was hunted to extinction in New Zealand, but later reintroduced. Within Australia they are nomadic, with erratic migration patterns dependent upon climatic conditions. Black swans are large birds with mostly black plumage and red bills. They are monogamous breeders that share incubation duties and cygnet rearing between the sexes." *Click to read more info on Wikipedia

Rațe/ Ducks "Anatidaeeste o familie biologică de păsări, care include rațele, gâștele și lebedele. Familia are o distribuție cosmopolitană, fiind prezentă pe toate continentele lumii cu excepția Antarcticii. În general sunt păsări erbivore,monogame; o parte din specii migrează anual."
"Duckis the common name for a large number of species in the Anatidae family of birds, which also includes swans and geese. The ducks are divided among several subfamilies in the Anatidae family; they do not represent a monophyletic group (the group of all descendants of a single common ancestral species) but a form taxon, since swans and geese are not considered ducks. Ducks are mostly aquatic birds, mostly smaller than the swans and geese, and may be found in both fresh water and sea water." wikipedia

Platanul Secular si Zona PlatanilorSycamore TreesPlatan: "Platanus, mai ales Platanus occidentalis sau Platanus orientalis) arbore exotic cu tulpina înaltă și groasă, având scoarță de culoare verzuie, cu coroană mare, bogat ramificată și cu frunze palmate, cultivat ca plantă ornamentală."Sycamore "is a name which is applied at various times and places to several different types of trees, but with somewhat similar leaf forms. The name derives from the ancient Greek συκόμορος (sūkomoros) meaning "fig-mulberry" "Platanus occidentalis, also known as American sycamore, American planetree, occidental plane, and buttonwood, is one of the species of Platanus native to North America. It is usually called sycamore in North America, a name which can refer to other types of tree in other parts of the world." read for more on wikipedia

Arborele Ginko(Japonia/Japan; adus de/brought by Carl Meyer)"Ginkgo biloba, sau Arborele pagodelor (în limba chineză și limba japoneză 銀杏, pinyin romanizat ca: yín xìng, Romaniazare Hepburn: ichō ori ginnan), este o specie de arbore dioic unic în lume, fără părinți vii.Ginkgo biloba era răspândit, în toată emisfera nordică în Jurasic, dar în prezent arealul său natural este redus la o mică regiune din sud-estul Chinei. Este denumit popular „patru-bani”, „arborele templier japonez”, „caisa argintie”.Aspectul general al planteiDupă ce în Europa a fost introdus în 1730, în Olanda, acum se cultivă și în alte țări atât pentru aspectul său ornamental (în parcuri, pe alei, în grădini botanice) cât și în scop terapeutic. Deoarece această adevărată "fosilă vie" a devenit în ultimii ani una din cele mai importante plante medicinale, a început să fie introdusă în culturi extinse, pentru a-i fi recoltate frunzele."Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba; in Chinese, Korean and Japanese: 銀杏, pinyin romanization: yín xìng, Revised Romanization: "eun haeng", Hepburn romanization: ichō or ginnan, Vietnamese: bạch quả), acceptable variant gingko and also known as the maidenhair tree, is a unique species of tree with no living relatives. The ginkgo is a living fossil, recognisably similar to fossils dating back 270 million years. Native to China, the tree is widely cultivated and was introduced early to human history. It has various uses in traditional medicine and as a source of food." (...) In many areas of China, it has been long cultivated, and it is common in the southern third of the country. It has also been commonly cultivated in North America for over 200 years and in Europe for close to 300, but during that time, it has never become significantly naturalized."

read for more on wikipedia

Torreya nucifera Arbore nativ din sudul Japoniei si Insula Jeju Coreea de Sud. Mai este denumit kaya sau Japanese nutmeg-yew."is a slow-growing, coniferous tree native to southern Japan and to South Korea's Jeju Island. It is also called kaya or Japanese nutmeg-yew."

Denumirea mesteacănului vine din latinul mastichinus. Denumirea științifică a genului, Betula, este tot din limba Latină. Mesteacănul reprezintă sursa de hrană pentru un număr mare de larve ale genului Lepidoptera."Birch
"is a broadleaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula (/ˈbɛtjʊlə/), in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams, and is closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae. The genus Betula contains 30 to 60 known taxa of which 11 are on the IUCN 2011 Red List of Threatened Species. They are typically rather short-lived pioneer species widespread in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly in northern temperate and boreal climates. This tree is sometimes called "The Watchful Tree" because of eye-like impressions on the bark."

I enjoy travelling and documenting to find out new & old things, to see world and people with one drop of positive attitude... from a huge sense of wonder... But before all, it was William Blake who beautifully said it:
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour. (...)
Fragments from "Auguries of Innocence".
Also, "It’s never too late (...) to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same; there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again." excerpt by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Motto: "Zi gong (a disciple of Confucius) asked: "Is there any one word that could guide a person throughout life?" The Master replied: "How about 'shu' [reciprocity]: never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself?" Confucious, Analects XV.24

An 'architectonic view'. Another walk from Spring (II)

Motto: "Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike." "Neither family, nor privilege, nor wealth, nor anything but Love can light that beacon which a man must steer by when he sets out to live the better life." Plato

An 'architectonic view'. Another walk in Spring. (I)

Motto: "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything." "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." Plato

Springtime in April

A Spring sequence. "I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health." "Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." Voltaire

Sakura in April

"A cherry blossom is the flower of any of several trees of genus Prunus, particularly the Japanese cherry, Prunus serrulata, which is called sakura after the Japanese (桜 or 櫻; さくら)." "The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short." Source Internet/Wikipedia

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"Names and etymology"* "The Latin name Dānuvius is one of a number of "Old European" river names derived from a Proto-Indo-European *dānu. Other river names from the same root include the Don, Donets, Dzvina/Duna, Dysna, Dnieper and Dniestr. (...) "The Latin name is masculine (as is the name of the Rhine). German Donau (Early Modern German Donaw, Tonaw, Middle High German Tuonowe) is feminine, as it has been re-interpreted as containing the suffix -ouwe "wetland". The modern languages spoken in the Danube basin all use names derived from Dānuvius: German: Donau ([ˈdoːnaʊ̯]; Bavarian: Doana; Yiddish: Duney דוניי‎ [dʊnɛj]); Silesian: Důnaj; Upper Sorbian: Dunaj; Slovak: Dunaj ([ˈdunaj]); Hungarian: Duna ([ˈdunɒ]); Croatian: Dunav ([dǔnaʋ]; Serbian: Dunav / Дунав ([dǔnaʋ] or [dǔnaːʋ]); Romanian: Dunărea ([ˈdunəre̯a]); Romani: Dunaja ([ˈdunaja]); Bulgarian: Дунав Dunav ([ˈdunɐf]); Ukrainian: Дунай Dunai ([duˈnɑj])."Source Wikipedia

Soul journeys through memories.

From the September, 2015. End of summer or early in autumn. Roads to Herculane/Domogled National Park; De-a lungul Dunării. Along Danube.

Călătorie de suflet: Travel of "may"

MOtto:"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. (...) Fragments from "Auguries of Innocence" "To See a World..."by William Blake

2016. New Year's Resolution: Confidence!

"Confidence is not something that can be learned like a set of rules; confidence is a state of mind. Positive thinking, practice, training, knowledge and talking to other people are all useful ways to help improve or boost your confidence levels."

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Ziua Pământului/ Earth Day ... "Let's celebrate it in every day!"

"The Black Sea* is a sea in Southeastern Europe. It is bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and the Aegean Seas and various straits. The Bosphorus Strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the Strait of the Dardanelles connects that sea to the Aegean Sea region of the Mediterranean. These waters separate eastern Europe and western Asia. The Black Sea is also connected to the Sea of Azov by the Strait of Kerch." *click for more info on Wikipedia.

"Embroidery" in blue light at sunset ..."

"Simphony for... old trees, branches and leaves. Small part for fall colours and a final note in black and white wood..." "Memento: Play Con allegria..." "Scenary. Static nature."

..."Deep words … They are like the scent of a flower"...

"In the end, what we have is a conversation, a lifelong dialogue with life. It’s a conversation expressed not in words but in the immediacy of experience and the poetry of the one, single now. And that is exactly where the experience of sacredness lives."

A Walk of Spring along the lake. Plimbare primăvăratică de-a lungul lacului.

"I am alone amidst the trees at the lake’s edge, I live in friendship with the shore’s old firs and in secret understanding with all the young rowans. Alone I lie and wait, I have seen no one walk by. Great flowers look down on me from tall stems, bitter creepers climb in my embrace, I have a single name for everything, and that is love." "The Waiting Soul" from vol. "Poems" (1916), by Edith Södergran

Happenings & blooms... Intamplari & flori...

Earth Hour 2014 "I will look to this day only. I will participate to those experiences designed for my particular development." In "my beautiful world ... all is well!"

“Omagiu sarmalei ca la mama acasă”

"Sarma is a savory dish of grape, cabbage or chard leaves rolled around a filling usually based on minced meat, or a sweet dish of filo dough wrapped around a filling often of various kinds of chopped nuts. It is found in the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire from the Middle East to the Balkans and Central Europe." ... click to read more: Despre Sarmale / Cabbage rolls filled with pork meat